RAIDED BY PIRATES
CHINESE BANDITS POSE AS REVENUE OFFICERS BRITISH LEGATION SURPRISED Reed. 10.10 a.m. SHANGHAI, Friday. A party o£ bandits, posing as revenue officers searching lor opium, boarded a British river boat on the Yangtse River, the Tuckwo, between Nanking and Chinkiang. Six members of the British Embassy staff were on the vessel, including the legation secretary. The bandits disclosed their identity on reaching the deck. They wounded several Chinese who resisted them, and seized a small quantity of opium. Two are now dead. One was a Chinese passenger, IGIO was shot and thrown overboard. Government troops on shore, apparently suspecting piracy, fired recklessly on the Tuckwo. Hundreds of bullets spattered the vessel’s sides. The fire was intensified when the pirates left the vessel in a launch carrying the stolen opium. The steamer reached Shanghai safely. Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, had intended travelling on this boat, but eventually used the train.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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155RAIDED BY PIRATES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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